Wheels Quotes - Page 5

• The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

  Robert Jordan

  Als, Needed

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• If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Feelings, Secret

  Hermann Hesse (1974). “Kingsor's Last Summer”

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• If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Real, Hammers, Fence

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• True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Health, Heart

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.

  Joss Whedon

  Giving Up, Sleep, Winning

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Ambition, Support

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• We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Dog, Cat, Hierarchy

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Feet, Virtue, Fortune

  Benvenuto Cellini (2010). “The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXI (in 51 Volumes)”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Machines

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.196, Library of Alexandria

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• Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually, if you build your foundation then you can branch off.

  Michael K. Williams

  Sex, Children, Fall

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Desire, Environment

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• When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.

  Graham Hill

  Lotuses, Sitting, Overtaking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, People, Political

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• To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Able, Reason

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2118, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

  Isaac Asimov

  Inventor

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• so much depends
  upon
  
  a red wheel
  barrow

  William Carlos Williams

  Red, Depends

  "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

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• In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Important, Cogs

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• But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

  Herodotus

  Change, Men, Doe

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• A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Experience, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.225, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

  Kate Millett

  Rebel, Way, Spinning

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• Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
  holocaust
  The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

  Robert Pinsky

  Death, Holocaust, Ornaments

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “History of My Heart: Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Children, School

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• Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

  Phyllis Rose

  Women, Expectations, Achievement

  Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

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• I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

  Jim Carrey

  Able, Middle, Cases

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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